Posted on 10/23/2015 8:11:36 PM PDT by Utilizer
On September 11, 2012, by 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the attack by a terrorist group associated with al-Qaeda was still underway against our consulate and CIA compound in Benghazi, Libya. By this time the whereabouts of Ambassador Chris Stevens were unknown, but the State Department had been informed of the attack and that Sean Smith had been found dead.
The following is a verified timeline of what then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama, the White House and various administration agencies knew, when they knew it, and the now-verifiable lies told by all concerned for more than a week afterwards.
Thanks to new information uncovered by the Benghazi Select Committee, we now know for a fact that, at least in private, Clinton was telling the truth — telling others that an anti-Muslim YouTube video had absolutely nothing to do with what she immediately knew was an organized terror attack, and one that resulted in the murder of four Americans, including our ambassador.
Nevertheless, publicly, the White House, Obama, and Clinton spent more than a week afterwards covering up what they knew was the truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Congress can authorize themselves to appoint a special prosecutor. They’ve done it before.
Congress can not execute any law nor can they appoint special prosecutors. Period. They can pass a law authorizing and funding the judiciary to appoint special prosecutors in cases where there are executive conflicts. In general, special prosecutors suck and appointing them sucks worse but Congress can not do that suck.
Did I say otherwise? Did you bother to read?
Here it is again:
Congress can appoint a special prosecutor.
Congress can not appoint a special prosecutor. What part of that are you having trouble with?
You are playing with semantics. Congress can appoint an independent counsel which is a synonym for a special prosecutor.
The appointment is a process by which the DC Circuit is COMPELLED to select a prosecutor that is acceptable to Congress.
So the best that can be said for your end is that it is a bit of an indirect process. But again if there is a strong leadership group in Congress, they will keep tabs of who the DC Circuit is offering for selection.
I am not playing with semantics. This is all constitutional stuff. Separation of powers and all that. Left wingers think Article III judges can make law. Right wingers think Congress can enforce laws. Both are wrong and when you write that “Congress can appoint a special prosecutor/independent counsel” that is false. Similarly when you write that Congress has veto power over the selection of same by Article 3 courts that is also false.
Not to meantion that the entire idea of special prosecutors is one that sucks because they have no checks and balances.
> “This is all constitutional stuff. Separation of powers and ...”
Blah Blah Blah...fantasy
When leadership in Congress wants to appoint, authorize, compel, install a special prosecutor/independent counsel, they are going to do it. And they are going to do it over your petty objections. If you have a problem with that, go find a tree to argue with.
Lol. You revel in your ignorance. Congratulations!
United States Office of the Independent Counsel was an independent prosecutor — distinct from the Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice — that provided reports to the Congress under 28 U.S.C. § 595
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/595
The Office of the Independent Counsel is not to be confused with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel which is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority come from three federal statutes, the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the Hatch Act, nor should it be confused with the “independent counsel” who is appointed by the Attorney General pursuant to United States Department of Justice regulations. 28 Code of Federal Regulations 600.1.
An independent counsel aka special prosecutor may originate from any of the 3 branches of government. You are fixated on two, the executive and the judicial.
The problem with people that encourage the yelping of jackals such as you is that they waste their time. But this post isn’t for you, it is for anyone reading that is trying to get a fix on the truth. Because you are certainly not getting to it.
It took 5 seconds to find the above link which is about the same time it took to get a fix on you as an uppity know-it-all know nothing. Before shooting off your mouth via fingertips to keyboard, try researching your ideas before cluttering up the threads of FR.
You do understand that nothing you posted supports any of your claims one would hope.
That whole “Politics is just theatre for the ugly” makes more and more senses.
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